over the past few days I've been busy creating fresh images of all NeXT operating system releases I could find in my collection. to create as small as possible files I erased the CF cards by overwriting them with zeroes before installing the system. these are all fresh installs, done on black hardware. the images have never been booted after the installation process has finished. they have been created by either using BuildDisk or by using original install media where available. no patches (if available) have been applied.

if anybody is willing to host these files I'll be happy to share (if there aren't any concerns about legal issues...).

here's the list of the images I created and also the releases I'm still missing:

Hello Mike: I can also host them on black hole and make them easily downloadable , I would put them in the shopping cart section which would be accessable to everyone for a nominal fee like $1.00, this would cover the added expense of server space. I have ISO's available as well of Openstep 4.2 and NeXTSTEP 3.3 and have those working with permission from Apple Legal . For forum members I can offer support as well , if the $1 is a deal breaker , you can always email me and I can send you a secret squirrel link that is time controlled .... so how exactly does one unzip uncompress and install version 1.0 or any versions up to 2.2 on to a hard drive on an 030 or later cube ? As early versions didn't use cdrom but optical disk and 1.0 builddisk only goes optical to optical .... can you create an early iso or cdr bootable version , then what command do you issue to start the install or is it DD . Best regards Rob Blessin http://www.blackholeinc.com/store/_________________Rob Blessin President computerpowwow ebay sales@blackholeinc.comhttp://www.blackholeinc.com
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I don't mind if you'll take USD 1.00 per download. but, if anybody is willing to host the files for free, they will become available there too.

these are zipped dd-images. you could restore them on black hardware but I think it is easier to do it on a Mac or Linux box. BTW: 1.0 and 0.9 will install to a harddrive using BuildDisk. of course one has to create a suitable disktab first (this is what I did) so the HDD will be recognized by the installer.

the images also work with the NeXT emulator previous.

regards,
michael_________________October 12, 1988 Computing Advances To The NeXT Level

we have been able to confirm the compatibility of almost every release of NeXTSTEP with the NeXT emulator Previous. what we're still missing is NeXTSTEP Release 0.8 or 0.8a. please contact me or andreas_g if you have a working copy. some releases have "special needs" (like we have seen with Release 2.0 which refused to boot). now that 2.0 is running, we would like to check if 0.8 works in Previous or not... thank you!

regards,
michael_________________October 12, 1988 Computing Advances To The NeXT Level

@jroark: the images are still not hosted anywhere. I don't know for sure if it would be legal or not...

@protocol7: there was an issue with 2.0 (I was in contact with andreas about the issue). and it has been solved.

I totally forgot about the issue with 3.1. tested it a few minutes ago and the hang on root is till there. funny thing is: 3.1 works if I choose NeXTstation as emulated system..._________________October 12, 1988 Computing Advances To The NeXT Level

The problem with 2.0 only occurred when emulating 68040 based systems. It was FPU related and is fixed now.
I remember there was a problem with fonts not being shown in a later release. That might be solved too.

All other problems (like the "root on" hang) are not addressed by the latest changes. They are not CPU related. Most of them might be timing problems.